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The DIY king meets cat.

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Mac learns you can’t make everything (but you can make a lot).

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Rating:  G

Summary:  Mac and Jack find the loves of their lives at an adoption event. 

This work is the intro for 2 stories to follow:  Of Cats and Castles, which tells the story of Mac and his new cat, Newton, and Of Dalton and Dogs, which is the story of Jack and his dog McClane.  There will also be a third story, hinted at in the first chapter of Of Cats and Castles, with Riley and her new pet.

The inspiration for this work goes to TorchwoodCardiff and LegendsofThunderbirdsDragon.  TorchwoodCardiff and I have an ongoing game of "What pet would the MacGyver folk have?"   LegendsofThunderbirdsDragon read  Mesocricetus Auratus where Mac builds a super-habitat for a hamster and wanted to know what he'd do for a cat. They also suggested the Pixie-Bob.

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Ch. 3.

Smut, smut, and more smut

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A second chapter by request.  May be a third

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Rating:  T

Pairing:  Jack/OFC, MacDalton pre-slash

Part of Sing-along IV

Song:  Don’t Cry, Katie

Artist:  Kingston Trio

Summary:  Jack has someone waiting at home for him.  Then he meets Mac.

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Rating:  T

Pairing:  Danny/Melissa breakup, McDanno preslash

Part of Sing-along IV

Song:  Goodbye Says it All

Artist:  Blackhawk

Summary:  Danny comes home late from Steve's expecting a confrontation.  What he finds is quite different, and it forces him to realize some things he hasn't admitted, even to himself.

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Rating:  T

Pairing:  None

Trigger warning:  Domestic violence, gun violence

Part of Sing-along IV

Song:  Gunpowder and Lead

Artist:  Miranda Lambert

Summary:  A domestic violence case goes bad.

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Rating:  G

Series:  Dragonverse family stories

Summary:  Steffie is a true dragon-she hoards. Steve's had enough.

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Basically what the “rules” of writing boil down to is:

1. All conventions of language are made up and nothing is “right” or “wrong” in the abstract; BUT

2. When you drill down to the level how to most effectively communicate this specific piece of information to that specific audience, there are absolutely right and wrong choices.

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Part of Sing-Along IV, iPod shuffle challenge.

Song:  The Kite

Artist:  You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Rating:  G

Relationship:  Charlie/Danny father/son

Summary:  Charlie's having trouble flying a kite.  Danny won't let him give up.

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Rating: E

Pairing:  Magnum/Katsumoto

Summary:  The White Knight has nothing on Magnum in the bedroom.

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Rating: T

Pairing:  None

Characters:  Jack, Murdoc, Matty

Summary: As a volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Jack is asked to fulfill a very strange wish. 

Warning:  Dark and morally ambiguous.  Assisted suicide of a minor OC.

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Thoughts on Evil

I really enjoyed this show.  It didn’t grab me immediately, but as soon as George made an appearance, I was hooked.  George is creepy, scary, and thoroughly disgusting.  I’m surprised I didn’t get nightmares.  I hope he shows up again.

I also adored Townsend.  Such a great actor!  Townsend is also suitably creepy.  I look forward to seeing more of him.

I did not like the potential for romance between the two leads.  I think her marriage is probably shot, so that didn’t bother me too much, but David’s going to be a priest, and that was inappropriate.  Of course, that was the point.  Hopefully it was just fodder for George and won’t progress.

The only problem with having it at 10 pm on Thursday is I’m too creeped out to sleep, and I do have to work the next day!  I may just stream it some nice, safe time like 3 pm Saturday.  :)

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The hardest part of writing is the putting things into words

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don‘t outline if you don‘t want to

don‘t work with drafts if a different method suits you better

use adverbs as you please

don’t listen to advice you don’t believe in

don’t pressure yourself

you don‘t have to write the most

in the shortest possible time

before you reach a certain age

and get published

all you have to do

is what you want to.

have fun

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Let’s hear it for lurkers

So apparently round umpty-zillion of “people are killing fandom by not commenting” is going around, and I’ve seen a few posts trashing people for lurking/viewing/reading instead of actively participating.

My journal and my fic has always been a lurker-friendly zone. I think lurkers are great and people can fight me on this. Here’s why:

We all started out as lurkers. Or at least most of us did. Come on. I’m sure some people out there must’ve jumped into fandom with both feet and started writing and commenting right away, and good for you if you did! But I sure didn’t. I lurked for YEARS. And even now, though I’ve been in fandom since before Y2K, whenever I get into a new fandom or a new social media platform, I still lurk. I hang out around the fringes for awhile to get a feeling for the place before starting to participate. Back in the mailing list/bulletin board days, it was usually recommended that people do that on purpose, watch and listen and learn the local lingo and social rules before diving in. So you know what? You are not doing anything wrong and you are not doing anything that most of the people you see out there commenting and creating and reccing things haven’t done themselves.

We all have lurker days, weeks, months …. Nobody is 100% “on” all the time. Participating in fandom (commenting, reccing, creating content, and so forth) is WORK. It may be fun work, but it still takes effort! Even if you’re sometimes very active in fandom, then you’ll have life fall on your head or the brain weasels flare up, and you won’t have the time and energy to give. Don’t feel guilty about not being able to give fandom your extra spoons. No one in fandom has a right to demand a single spoon from you that you don’t want to give.

Some of today’s lurkers may be your friends tomorrow. How do I know this? Because I’ve made friends with some of them myself! I’ve had people delurk in my comments to say hi after YEARS of reading my fanfic without saying a word. Which I am totally okay with, by the way. And some of these people are good friends today.

So, in conclusion:

It is okay to feel too shy to come out of lurkerhood in fandom until you feel more comfortable there. It is fine, in fact, if you never do.

It is okay to be too busy and have too few spoons to comment or create stuff. You still have a perfect right to be in fandom and read and reblog whatever you want.

It is okay if you meant to comment on that fic or go back and press the kudos button but never got around to it.

It is okay if you have too many accounts already and don’t want to create a new one just to comment/participate on a social media platform. 

It is okay if your personal situation (a stalker ex, controlling parents) makes it unsafe for you to create an account or comment on things.

It is okay if you can’t or don’t want to comment or do any of the other things that constitute non-lurkerhood, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for why.

IT IS OKAY TO BE A LURKER.